The Last Materials: Homage to Galeta

16.6.-17.7.2016.

Gallery PM

Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Deep End Art, 2013.

Exhibition opening on Thursday, 16.6.2016. at 7.00pm

As part of the 51^st Zagreb Salon, the Gallery PM will host the exhibition entitled “Last Materials: Homage to Galeta” based on the curatorial concept by Tea Hatadi and honoring the multimedia artist and filmmaker Ivan Ladislav Galeta (1947 – 2014), the winner of the 48^th Zagreb Salon Grand Prix for his work Disappearing Multi Self-portrait. Alongside Ivan Ladislav Galeta’s videos produced by Croatian Film Association, the exhibition will host contributing artwork by Tihomir Milovac, Stipe Babić, Marko Golub, Igor Juran, Branka Cvjetičanin and Sandro Đukić, Vlasta Delimar and Milan Božić.

Ivan Ladislav Galeta is the Grand Prix winner for his Disappearing Multi Self-portrait from 1980, which he displayed on the 48^th Zagreb Salon as invited artist.

For the duration of the exhibition, Galeta counted down the days from the creation of the self-portrait to the exhibition closing day, by writing them in graffiti on the wall of Bačva Gallery. Each day, he also marked the 1 Euro growth in the self-portrait’s price.

This “expanded” photograph was taken on September 25, 1980 at Centre George Pompidou. Each day, its selling price rises by 1 € (net worth) reciprocally to its disappearing, said Ivan Ladislav Galeta.

While working on his Disappearing Multi Self-portrait in Bačva Gallery, Galeta was always pleased to share his thoughts, processes and research with curios visitors, as well as colleagues, students and the admirers of his work. That process of working and socializing encouraged the creation of further pieces and documents that this exhibition will host for the very first time, mentioned Tea Hatadi, curator of the exhibition.

Ivan Ladislav Galeta (Vinkovci, May 9, 1947 – Zagreb, January 7, 2014) lived in the village of Kraj Gornji near Zagreb. He graduated from the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb (1967), Visual Arts at the Teacher Training School (1969) and Pedagogy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (1981). From 1977 to 1990, he presided over the Multimedia Centre (MM) of the University of Zagreb’s Student Centre, Croatia’s first distributer of home and foreign experimental film and video. He founded and managed the art cinema Filmoteka 16 (1991 – 1994). He taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb: as assistant from 1993, assistant professor from September 16, 1997, associate professor from June 11, 2002 and full professor from December 12, 2007. On May 1, 2013 he was granted tenure. He initiated the establishing of two new study courses: new media (2000), followed by animated film and new media (2004). In 1969, he started making films and in 1975 videos. In 1973, he started exhibiting his objects-installations, photographic installations, expanded film presentations, videos, works for TV, texts, sound installations, ambient installations, ecological projects and actions. In the mid 1990’s, he adopted the ecological orientation in art by referring to Henry David Thoreau, Karel Čapek, Masanobu Fukuoka, Bill Mollison, James Joyce, Bela Hamvas, Claude Monet and others. His works are held in the Contemporary Art Museum in Zagreb, Centre George Pompidou in Paris, Oberhausen, Avignon, Croatian Film Association… He was awarded several major awards, including the 1988 “Vladimir Nazor” annual state award (Water Pulu 1896 1896), the 1999 Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres Order of France by the Ministry of Culture of the French Republic, and the 2012 “Vladimir Nazor” state award for lifework in the visual arts field.

SUPPORTED BY: The realization of the exhibition was financially supported by the City Office for Education, Culture and Sports of Zagreb and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.

 

 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatian Film Association, Galeta family, Ira Mardešić, Vera Robić Škarica, ARS kopija, Zagreb Design District Festival.

TICKETS:

20 kn citizens
10 kn students and retirees
10 kn groups (over 5 persons, fare per person)

Free for regular members of Croatian Association of Artists, AICA, ICOM, Croatian Society of Art Historians and Croatian Journalists’ Association, as well as students of the Academy of Fine Arts and Art History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, upon presentation of valid documents.
Tickets are sold at the Croatian Association of Artists box office, during the opening hours of the exhibition.

Summer opening hours:
Wednesday – Sunday 10 – 13 and 16 – 20
Mondays, Tuesdays and holidays closed.

July, 22nd and 25th  – the exhibition are open

Dom HDLU

Trg žrtava fašizma 16
10000 Zagreb